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Decided it was time to test my Tribute clone brew. Wife kindly bought a bottle of Tribute so I could do a side-by-side evaluation. Visually it's easy to see the real thing ... Tastewise mine is a near miss. Still very drinkable but not quite the same. I'll brew it again

https://www.thehomebrewforum.co.uk/threads/this%E2%80%99ll-make-you-smile.94278/#post-1036374

Almost finished packing for our Greek holiday tomorrow (wife's is still WIP 😂) so enjoying one of my Ozzy beer stash. Lovely beer ..

After five years or so of using a plastic lidded fermentation bucket and brewing highly hopped NEIPAs on a regular basis I decided to replace my old bucket fermenter with something a bit better. The new fermenter had to: Have an airtight lid Have a large opening to facilitate cleaning Have a...

I dry hop with loose pellets in the fermenter. I strongly recommend the use of a brew fridge for "controlling" fermentation temperature but also to cold crash before transfer. I find after 3-4 days at 3C everything drops to the bottom of the fermenter. Up until now I've used a bucket fermenter...

I'll be there on Sunday. Looking forward to my annual Greek island fix, excuse the pun 😂.

Is that a question @peebee ?!? 😂

Questions usually end with one of these "?" not one of these "!" 😂

Your NEIPA is clearing nicely asad.

After I posted this I did a bit more online research and found this...

Thanks @peebee . I think with my brewing schedule 25kg bag would be a bit over the top. Looked on the bay and 1kg costs around £10. Think I'll explore the B&M option.

Thanks @Sadfield . I'll check it out athumb..

In the past I’ve used Vanish unscented Oxy cleaner. This is no longer available and the supermarket Oxy are all scented as far as I can see. If you’re an Oxy user, what do you use?

Hop schedule looks fine. If I were brewing this beer I’d delay adding the Aurora hops to 30 mins as this is what’s providing the bitterness. Also, you could try adding the 0 mins hops when the boiled wort has cooled to 80C.

I'm a fan of floating dip tubes. I have one in my fermenter as well so after cold crashing the beer is drawn off from the top down, minimising the risk of transferring any drops to the keg

What were the hop timings? I stopped adding hops early in the boil as it resulted in a bitter not hoppy beer.

I'm in the process of making a new fermentation vessel which is proper air tight, has a large opening, includes my design of trapdoor dry hoppers and magnetic dip tube. Keeps me busy 😂

Yes, only I made my own version using polycarbonate sheet and a float ping-pong ball... You can see it clinging to the side of the bucket. PTFE coated magnet on the inside and a standard magnet on the outside.

Hi @ghocking . I've modified my fermentation bucket to have a magnetic floating dip tube. During fermentation, dry hopping and cold crash the float and the end of the dip tube are held above the brew keeping them clear of any crud/trub. To transfer the finished beer to my PB the float is...